Word: skeet
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...when the season was 3½ months long instead of 45 days, and there was no such thing as daily bag limits (this year's daily bag limit is ten ducks, four geese or brant). Tyros tickled oldsters with their newfangled theories learned on the skeet fields. Everyone grumbled about the Federal "nuisance" regulations: no shooting before 7 a.m. or after 4 p.m.; no more than three shells in a gun; no live decoys; no baiting in duck-shooting areas. And many an ardent wildfowler gained an audience by quoting passages from the latest duck-hunter's Bible...
President of Packard Motor Car Co. since 1916, Alvan Macauley is a handsomely bronzed, courtly gentleman of 67 who collects fine guns, enjoys skeet shooting and British novels. At Grosse Pointe Shores, Michigan, he maintains just such an estate as prestige-conscious Packard ("Ask the Man Who Owns One") likes to picture in advertisements of its expensive automobiles. A perfect piece of type casting for the days when Packard catered exclusively to the carriage trade, Alvan Macauley last week stepped up to the board chairmanship. His successor: Vice President and General Manager Max M. Gilman...
...most astonishing thing about skeet is that 20% of its enthusiasts are women & children who probably would never have seen a shotgun were it not for the unique U. S. mores that deny them the privileges of golf courses on Sunday afternoons. To keep golf widows & orphans amused, many a sedate country club has erected a skeet field, developed expert marksmen out of onetime Sunday thumb-twiddlers...
...Tulsa, last week, the National Skeet Shooting Association held its fourth annual championship tournament. As usual, the headliners were not much older than the sport itself. Of the seven amateur champions determined during the week, only one was over 21. Youngest was Augusta's 12-year-old Clayton P. ("Red") Boardman Jr., freckles champion of Georgia, who. hobbling around on crutches (because of a foot infection that hospitalized him for six months), broke 95 out of 100 targets to retain the sub-junior title he won last year...
...target all-gauge shoot, a comparative oldster of 28, Henry Bourne Joy Jr.. turned in an extraordinary performance-a perfect score of 250, something that had never been done before. Skeeter Joy, son of the late Henry B. Joy, onetime president of Packard Motor Car Co. and famed skeet pioneer in the Midwest, lost his right eye in a shooting accident five years ago. now shoots left-handed-and better than ever...